Wakker Dier is a
Dutch
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animal welfare organisation. ''Wakker Dier'' is Dutch for "awoken animal". Its main purpose is putting an end to
factory farming. Wakker Dier was founded in 1997 and fused with the organisation ''Lekker Dier'' in 2001, but the name didn't change.
Marianne Thieme was the foundation's president from 2004 to 2006. Wakker Dier has had several successful campaigns, most notably the one against
battery cage
Battery cages are a housing system used for various animal production methods, but primarily for egg-laying hens. The name arises from the arrangement of rows and columns of identical cages connected together, in a unit, as in an artillery batt ...
s (since 2003 super markets stopped selling eggs from chickens raised there) and the one against the castrating of conscious pigs (
Hema and
Unox have said they will stop selling meat from unanaesthetised pigs by 2009).
References
External links
Website Wakker Dier{{in lang, nl
Organizations established in 1998
Animal welfare organisations based in the Netherlands